The firm is also nearing the acquisition of car ticket inspection NSL, after it recently entered exclusive talks with the company’s owner 3i Group. It is expected to sell for between £100m and £110m.

Last month AAC sold restaurant chain TGI Friday’s to Carlson, a trade buyer, valuing the company at £60m. This made a 3.8-times return on AAC’s original investment.

The transactions provide a calling card for AAC Capital Partners as it prepares to return to investors for a fundraising as soon as next year.

Southwell said the firm would not be fundraising “in the next six months”, as it is only around 50% invested, but will look to consult investors on when it can next return to the market.

Southwell added: "My Dutch colleagues are also working on a few deals we are pretty confident of getting a good result on."

AAC was backed in its move for independence by a consortium of US bank Goldman Sachs, Dutch fund of fundsAlpInvest and Canadian pension fund Canada Pension Plan, which paid less than €600m to acquire 21 portfolio companies managed by AAC, in a secondaries transaction.